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Botanically, mosses are non-vascular plants in the land plant division Bryophyta. They are small a few centimeters tall herbaceous non-woody plants that absorb water and nutrients mainly through their leaves and harvest carbon dioxide and sunlight to create food by photosynthesis.[5][6] They differ from vascular plants in lacking water-bearing xylem tracheids or vessels. As in liverworts and hornworts, the haploid gametophyte generation is the dominant phase of the life cycle. This contrasts with the pattern in all vascular plants seed plants and pteridophytes, where the diploid sporophyte generation is dominant. Mosses reproduce using spores, not seeds, and have no flowers.